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I've suppressed the memory of it but a recent
example was one I did after Israel assassinated
Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin in March. I'd
been thinking what this man might have to look
forward to, being a fundamentalist Muslim;
that's going to heaven to be surrounded by 72
virgins. I had him in heaven surrounded by 72
murdered Israeli virgins.

Is there a cartoon you wish you’d never
drawn?

I wish I'd never drawn Kerry Packer as a goanna
(during the shut-down Costigan Royal
Commission of the early 1980s, which implicated
Packer) because he was innocent of the
innuendo.

Have you ever had a cartoon pulled?

I think every cartoonist has but it's part and
parcel of the job.

What makes a good cartoon?

The best cartoons are funny, but funny is a
broad term. You can have wincing funny or
belly-laugh funny. But there’s another ingredient
too; when the cartoon makes you look at an idea
in a way you're not used to.